Why I Don't Like Mayakovsky

Mayakovsky - a romantic of the revolution, ruined by Stalin? Or a grim and cruel propagandist of violence? The main Soviet poet? A person horrified by what he once extolled? Why do people love or hate him? What place does he occupy in Russian culture?
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BOOKS:
1. Yuri Karabchievsky. The Resurrection of Mayakovsky.
2. Mikhail Vaiskopf. In Full Logos: The Religion of Mayakovsky.
3. Roman Jakobson. About the Generation that Squandered Its Poets.
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00:00:00 Introduction. Lecture topic
00:01:42 Tamara Eidelman's bike trip in Copenhagen
00:04:31 Tamara Eidelman's attitude towards Mayakovsky's work
00:07:21 Mayakovsky and Soviet propaganda
00:10:30 Mayakovsky Square in Moscow
00:13:22 Attitude towards Mayakovsky during the Thaw
00:15:09 Mayakovsky readings
00:19:15 Strategy-31
00:20:25 How to prevent people from gathering in the square?
00:21:30 Today's image of the poet
00:22:26 Childhood and youth of Mayakovsky
00:24:47 Poet's insult to the audience
00:28:09 Society of Futurists and Mayakovsky's popularity
00:30:21 Mayakovsky during the war years
00:32:47 Futurism in Italy
00:36:34 Futurism in Russia
00:39:38 Comparison of Italian and Russian Futurism
00:43:11 Korney Chukovsky about Mayakovsky
00:44:16 Spirit of negation and power of destruction
00:45:52 Mayakovsky and the revolution
00:48:43 Avant-gardists and the revolution
00:54:57 How did the lives of avant-gardists who extolled the revolution turn out?
00:56:25 People's Commissariat for Education and Inkhuk
00:58:34 Desire to create in the name of changing life
01:01:41 Calls to violence in Mayakovsky's work
01:07:45 Mayakovsky and the division of the world into "ours" and "others"
01:09:22 Is Mayakovsky archaic?
01:14:48 The connection between archaization and violence
01:16:56 Ancient magic in Mayakovsky's poetry
01:21:16 Mayakovsky's attitude towards children
01:23:41 Dehumanizing the enemy in May
akovsky's poetry
01:31:00 "The Feat" of Vladimir Nabokov - a reference to Mayakovsky?
01:34:53 Mayakovsky - from individualism to collectivism
01:38:57 Poet of the masses
01:40:32 Mayakovsky's new language
01:50:50 Newspeak in George Orwell's novel "1984"
01:58:06 "The Revolt of the Masses" by philosopher José Ortega y Gasset
02:02:00 Why did Mayakovsky die?
02:04:23 The ambiguity of Mayakovsky's personality
02:09:48 The merging of creative intelligentsia with power and special services
02:14:44 Mayakovsky and the Briks
02:17:49 Avant-garde utopia
02:20:03 Why did the revolutionaries dislike the avant-gardists?
02:22:34 Politicization of art
02:24:43 Rejection of Mayakovsky's work by the state
02:28:46 Did Mayakovsky become disillusioned with the revolution?
02:29:49 Mayakovsky's last performance